DSP Stuff

[Ben Stuyts]

On Wed, 06 Jan 1999, James Jackson wrote:

> I've found what looks like a good development kit for DSP based
> synths... It's the EZ-Kit Lite. It's got a 16 bit stereo audio codec, and it
> runs a sharc DSP. Has anybody got one / used one for synth stuff?

Beware, there are two EZ-Kit's: one with the ADSP2181, which is about $100.  
This is a fixed point DSP. Then there's another one with the floating point  
Sharc DSP, but it is more expensive. The floating point capabilities should  
make it easier to program, but I have no experience with that.

I have the 2181 kit, and it works, although I think it is a bit noisy. (Bad  
pcb layout?) It comes with an assembler and some demo programs, and it is easy  
to program (if you have some experience in assembler). I recently found a web  
site (http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~orfanidi/ezkitl/ezkitl.html) with some  
additional lab excercises for the EZKIT.

Best regards,
Ben